Divorce Is for Suckers!

A Brooklyn couple has the right idea: Build a wall.

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It sounds like something from King Solomon's playbook. For more than a year now, Simon and Chana Taub, a bickering divorced couple from Brooklyn, have seen a wall go up between them. We're not talking about a figurative wall. This is a giant drywall monstrosity that cleaves their three-story stone-brick home in two.

When the Taubs worked out the terms of their divorce (a highly contentious process that is still ongoing), neither husband nor wife wanted to move out. Then Simon had a thought: Why not put up a wall? In August 2005, a divorce court judge agreed to Simon's plan. The wall went up four months later.

Instead of an all-or-nothing situation, each Taub has half a home. (Good thing they don't have a dog.) Simon gets the side entrance, the first-floor living room and bathroom, plus the dining room on the second floor that he shares with his 16-year-old son. (He recently added a staircase on his side.) Chana and the couple's other children live in the top half of the house, which includes four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a second-floor kitchen, a spiral staircase and a nursery. (She also gets the front door and garage.)

Sadly, the wall hasn't kept the warring Taubs from each other's throats. Simon alleges his wife is a money-grubbing shoe whore. Chana claims her husband is a violent voyeur who planted surveillance on her side of the house. Look for the happy couple to return to court on March 13.